The sound of music

Resource Information

The work The sound of music represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Reuben Hoar Library (Littleton). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The sound of music

Statement of responsibility

Twentieth Century Fox presents ; screenplay by Ernest Lehman ; directed by Robert Wise ; produced by Argyle Enterprises

Title variation

Rodgers and Hammerstein's The sound of music

Contributor

• Argyle Enterprises
• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
• Andrews, Julie
• Baker, Evadne, 1897-1995
• Crouse, Russel, 1893-1966
• Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960
• Haydn, Richard, 1905-1985
• Lee, Anna, 1913-2004
• Lehman, Ernest, 1915-2005
• Lindsay, Howard, 1889-1968
• Lloyd, Doris, 1896-1968
• Nelson, Portia
• Nixon, Marni
• Parker, Eleanor, 1922-2013
• Plummer, Christopher
• Reynolds, William, 1910-1997
• Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979
• Stuart, Gil, 1919-1977
• Truhitte, Daniel, 1943-
• Varden, Norma
• Wise, Robert, 1914-2005
• Wood, Peggy, 1892-1978
• Wright, Ben, 1915-1989

Subject

• Austria -- History -- 1918-1938 -- Drama
• Austria -- History -- 1918-1938 -- Fiction
• DVD-Video discs
• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Historical films
• Musical films
• Trapp Family Singers -- Drama
• Trapp Family Singers -- Fiction
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Videodiscs

Genre

• DVD-Video discs
• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction
• Film adaptations
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Historical films
• Musical films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• spa
• eng

Summary

As Nazism takes over Austria, a governess and a widowed father fall in love and escape the country with his large family of musically-talented children

Awards note

Academy awards, best picture, best director, best film editing, best sound, Best music, scoring of music, adaptation or treatment, 1965

Cataloging source

BKX

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Ted McCord ; film editor, William Reynolds ; music by Richard Rodgers; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

Dewey number

• [Fic]
• 792.6/42

Intended audience

MPAA rating: G

Language note

• Soundtrack in English, French or Spanish; subtitles in English or Spanish
• Closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.S58 2005

PerformerNote

Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson, Ben Wright, Daniel Truhitte, Norma Varden, Marni Nixon, Gil Stuart, Evadne Baker, Doris Lloyd, Eleanor Parker

Runtime

174

Target audience

general

Technique

live action